Toward the end of his 19 years in the National Football League, offensive tackle Lomas Brown noticed something that startled even a hardened veteran. It seemed as if almost every player he knew in the N.F.L. owned a gun. Brown said he saw guns...

December 26, 2003, Friday

A special committee created by Ohio State to investigate allegations of academic misconduct in the football program said yesterday that it found no evidence of misconduct and no evidence of players' receiving preferential treatment in class. The...

December 18, 2003, Thursday

The estate of Korey Stringer, the offensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings who collapsed and died two years ago from the heat during a training camp practice, must repay the team and other defendants about $47,000 in legal expenses, Hennepin County...

December 13, 2003, Saturday

Baseball was her first crush. As a shy, bright girl growing up in Detroit, she memorized the batting averages of all the Tigers. Years later, after discovering the law, Shira A. Scheindlin shed her baseball card collection for a robe and gavel. ...

December 11, 2003, Thursday

It was decided, late last month, that players for the Oakland Raiders needed a sit-down. So a players-only meeting was scheduled after a loss to Kansas City on Oct. 20, the team's fifth defeat in seven games. The ground rules were simple: Those who...

November 8, 2003, Saturday

If one does not count oysters, bull's testicles, mead or a thousand other nostrums that warriors and athletes have gamely swallowed, the first known performance-enhancing drug was trimethyl, which became well known because of a side effect: in 1886,...

October 22, 2003, Wednesday

Don Catlin, the scientist who identified a previously undetected steroid and oversaw tests indicating that as many as a half-dozen athletes in track and field had used the drug, said yesterday that he thought athletes were probably using similar...

October 21, 2003, Tuesday

The National Football League said yesterday that it would begin testing players for a previously unidentified and undetectable steroid, in an effort to avoid the kind of scandal that has embarrassed professional track and field this week. The...

October 18, 2003, Saturday

Lawyers for the National Football League and Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett are scheduled to meet today with U.S. District Court Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, according to her law clerk, an indication that Clarett's suit against the league may...